I have been looking at and thinking about making a drill press table for my Delta benchtop drill press but have run across some confusion. Either I am missing something with typical table design or something is not right with my drill press. Currently when I loosen the table lock screw to raise or lower the table the table always swivels back and forth and I have to realign it each time to ensure the drill bit exits the wood through the hole in the table. My question is would I have to readjust the fence and drill press table each time I raise or lower the table or is something loose on my drill and I should not be having this problem? Thank you
Two solutions here:
1. If you use an auxiliary dp table that uses replaceable inserts (you should!) then you can center the table, and then drill a hole using a twist bit (3/8" or bigger; you don't want it to flex) in the table surface but with the insert removed. Then when you need to adjust the height, you just chuck a 3/8" bit in and use the hole you drilled to center it.
2. (this is what I do most often) Use 1/2" or 3/4" MDF spacers to raise your work. This way you can keep the dp table height the same for most operations.
So after watching the video DKV posted it has me wondering if I even need a drill press table. I may just stick with what I have and possible use t-bolts to attach a board to the table just to give me some extra surface area.
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